Goodbye Prof Matthew Lester – all of SA, Biznews especially, misses you already
Yesterday’s email from the director of Rhodes Business School was like an unexpected stomach punch. Owen Skae wrote that the inimitable Matthew Lester had passed away.
Yesterday’s email from the director of Rhodes Business School was like an unexpected stomach punch. Owen Skae wrote that the inimitable Matthew Lester had passed away.
Alastair Mokoena, MD of Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg recently visited the Rhodes Business School to tackle the highly controversial subject of branding the #feesmustfall movement.
Matthew Lester unpacks the National Budget Speech in light of wealth taxes, what the changes are, and what they mean.
The mini budget for 2014/2015 will be presented to Parliament tomorrow. In this transcribed video previewing it, Matthew Lester paints the background.
SA needs the Mark Shuttleworth example of brains and energy as the catalyst to push internet education to viral status. We need to make it hip2B@school.
The annual SARS statistics report is a fascinating document. If you are a tax nerd, that is. Unfortunately not many appreciate the valuable data and trends contained therein. So the document is seldom studied in any detail.
By Matthew Lester It is now five years since the depths of the global credit crunch. The rot may have been checked but world prosperity seems to still be a long way off. In the aftermath of the global credit crunch the business environment has been subject to substantial reform across a very broad spectrum. … Read more
By Matthew Lester There is not much fun to be had when attending farmers’ days anymore. For years these functions used to be all about the droughts, floods or pests, lousy market prices and increasing fuel prices. We could generally drink out a solution. But now the land claims have opened up again and there … Read more
A very large portion of the South African economic sector is informal, if small businesses don’t fall into the ‘informal’ category then it is likely that they will fit into the category of small to medium sized enterprises (SME). From a current economic standpoint, the country desperately needs SME’s to spring up in true entrepreneurial … Read more
By Matthew Lester The Davis Tax Committee has released an interim report addressing the taxation of the small business sector. The report is available on www.treasury.gov.za The committee was established by the previous minister of finance, Pravin Gordhan, in July 2013 under chairman judge Dennis Davis. The brief of the DTC is to enquire and make … Read more